At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

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Astronomers have made a surprising discovery that challenges current theories of galaxy formation. A colossal disk-shaped ...

Unlike spirals, elliptical galaxies don't have much ambient gas and ... Objects moving away from an observer will lengthen and shift toward the red instead. The Z12 in GLASS-Z12's name describes ...

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A surprising new study from Dartmouth and the University of Exeter researchers shows that when the supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies—including the Milky Way—consume ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas periodically falls into the orbit ...

For astrophotographers and owners of smart telescopes that don't have T CrB in their catalogs (such as the ZWO SeeStar S50), instead lock on to IC4587, an elliptical galaxy in Corona Borealis that ...

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When they die, main sequence stars up to eight times the mass of the Sun tend to blow themselves apart, expanding into red giants that ... a nearby supergiant elliptical galaxy, one of the largest ...